Earlier this year, I published an article in Psychiatric Times with the psychiatrist Joel Paris, M.D., commenting on the concept of complex posttraumatic stress disorder and its relationship to ...

Not all depressions are the same; they need to be understood in the context of who we are. Listening to your inner world in ...

Is scrolling social media contributing to a mental health problem? Probably, according to the author of a recent study, which found that addiction to screens — computers, smartphones, televisions, ...

While borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder share common symptoms like reckless behavior, there are a few key differences.

According to psychiatrists, personality disorders are psychological disorders that fall somewhere between neuroses and psychoses. Many of us so-called "normal" folks have experienced neuroses, such as ...

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According to a study published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, experiencing mental disorders early in life may lead to poorer physical health and accelerate aging. It’s natural to experience some ...

Personality refers to a relatively stable set of tendencies in behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns, which together constitute a person’s unique character. One person may, for instance, be ...

Comorbidity is when a person has more than one health condition at once. Researchers investigating the comorbidity of personality disorders have found people with certain disorders may have other ...